Definition of "nonradical" [nonradical]

• Not radical. (adjective)
• One who is not a radical. (noun)
• That which is not a radical (group of atoms that function as a unit in reactions). (noun)

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• "With his own trial, the NSABP-04 the trial to test radical surgery versus nonradical surgery barely limping along, he could hardly convince surgeons to join a trial to combine chemo and surgery in breast cancer."
• "Even so, obsessed with Halstedian theory and unable to see beyond its realm, surgeons sharply berated such attempts at nonradical surgery."
• "“We clean out or strip the supraclavicular fossa with very few exceptions,” he announced at a surgical conference, reinforcing the notion that conservative, nonradical surgery left the breast somehow “unclean.”"